Improvement in bench-planes



nymce Bench-Planes.

No.148,090 PatentedMarch3,17-4.

e si Invenor UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BENCHPLANES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No'. 148,090, dated March3, 1874; application filed August 20, 1873.,

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, QUAR'rUs RICE, of Wash iington, District ofColumbia, have invented an Improvement in Bench-Planes, ot' which thefollowing isa specification:

Figure l is a Vertical longitudinal section of a carpenters orWood-worke1"s bench-plane. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

The nature of this invention consists, first, in the combination of anoil-vessel with the plane, to be operated automatically by the Workingof the plane; and, secondly, in a presser and cap in one device,constructed and operated as hereinafter more particularly described.

A is a vessel to hold oil. The oil vessel A has two covers, represented,respectively, by the letters d aud e. d is ofrigid material. e iselastic, and capable of vibration. f is an iron strap, to which thehandle of the plane is fastened, and which is also made fast to theplane at g, and is so constructed that the end y has a slight vibrationby pressure on the handle m. b is a tube, through which oil is pouredinto the'vessel A. It is also connected at c with the cover e, and madeto slip freely through the cover d, and connect with the strap fat y, sothat the vibration of the strap f is communicated to the cover e, andthus the vesselAis alternately contracted and enlarged, and, as thevessel keeps lled with air, the contraction forces the oil out throughthe aperture at 7L to the face of the plane, as desired. a is a stopplefor the tube b. O is a presser, to hold the cutting-bit iirinly inplace, and also serves as a cap for the cutting-bit. il) is athumblscrew, for regulating the distance of the cap from the edge of thecutter, by which the frame F, carrying the presser-cap O, is turned uponits pivots 0 0 in the sides ot' the plane, whilel the cap also inovesupon the pivots o o, by which itis hung to the frame F, and is adjustedto the cutting-bit, so as to press irxnly thereon, while the distancefrom the cuttingedge is also adjusted.

I ain aware that there are pressers similar to this, but am not aware ofany which act as cap and presser, and regulated in the manner hereindescribed.

I claiin as my inventionl. An oil-vessel, in combination with carpentersor Wood-workers bench-planes, so constructed, in connection with otherparts ot' the plane, that by working the plane the oil will be forced tothe face ot' the plane, substantially as and by the means described.

2. The presser-cap O, constructed as and for the purposes described.

QUARTUS RICE.

Vitnesses:

THoMAs C. CoNNoLLY, CAROLINE A. DoLBnAn.

